Problems with adding a second hard drive?

Have a problem with installation of a second hard drive, which is as follows:

Recently purchased a second hard drive (40 Gb seagate barracuda IV ST340016A 7200rpm) to add to the rather small seagate 4.3 Gb as a slave. Drive is compatible according to seagate.

Already had a 3.5 inch bay available so inserted new drive into vacant bay with appropriate mounting screws. Had available IDE cable and power leads inside computer ready to attach so carefully attached them to new drive. Made sure the drive had its jumpers set to slave and also checked that current drive was set to master. Made a final check that cables were connected correctly and properly lining up Pin 1 etc.

Everything connected..............replace case and start up computer. From here start up freezes!!! Computer hangs on Compaq logo screen won't even attempt to boot up. Able to go into Bios only, but this doesn't seem to be as described in seagate setup procedure ie select LBA, autosetup etc.

Tried windows 98 system disk etc, but no boot. Tried drive in another computer works fine. Disconnected new drive from my computer.......runs fine from old drive???

Possible solutions Bios upgrade needed (have a flash upgrade......how to use it i'm not sure need to copy files manually, but to where and how??)

Recently heard that compaq designed computers where a second hard drive cannot be added. This surely not the case is it??

Cannot bare the though of my new hard drive sitting idle any longer............how can i get my computer to recognise it and boot up????

You may need to update the system partition that resides on the original 4.3 drive. You may want to go to Compaq's site and see if the larger drive is supported by Compaq, and try downloading system setup disks to update the bios software, It's pretty easy, you boot from a floppy created from the Compaq download and allow it to upgrade you disk. If your planning on swapping drives eventually, you'll want to do this on the new disk before you load too much data on it. Seagate used to come with a floppy that let you migrate disk to disk, I'd try and see if that works, and put the old drive in a museum.

another thought to consider is that many harddrives have an additional master setting: master single & master with slave/secondary. Check the jumpers on you OLD hd to ensure that you are set as master for a multi-drive system (if such a jumper setup exists on the drive), otherwise the system will not recognize the dual hd configuration.

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